There’s a tough new police policy targeting Portland’s homeless. Why doesn’t anyone know about it?
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Out of the Frying Pan…
Oregon’s prison reform has Multnomah County mulling its first jail expansion in years.
Pressure Release
The answers to the county’s jail crowding are far more complicated than increasing capacity.
Jail Is Broken
An innovative plan to save state cash: Flatline the prison population.
When Justice Isn’t Fair
A 17-year-old has a breakdown in jail—and that’s just the beginning of his saga.
Jail, Inc.
Is Privatizing Jail Health Care a Lethal Idea?
The Criminalization of Mental Illness
Prison: Biggest providers of mental health services?
In Other News
NO CHARGE The district attorney’s office has decided not to prosecute a sheriff’s deputy for his alleged role in having coerced one jail inmate to stab another in the eye with a pencil. Deputy District Attorney Josh Lamborn made the decision not to prosecute late last week, after reviewing an internal sheriff’s office investigation into […]
